Home insurance for first-time buyers
Posted on Sep 08, 2025
As the buyers’ market continues, it’s logical that creates more opportunity for buyers to invest in homes for the first time in their lives. As with almost all “firsts” there can be some surprises.
Home insurance can be one of them.
Whether the first-time buyer goes shopping for a policy or enlist the services of an insurance broker, they’ll need to...
The latest updates on inflation in B.C.
Posted on Aug 19, 2025
Among the factors that affect the real estate market — along with everything else in life — is inflation. Naturally, the British Columbia Real Estate Association tracks inflationary trends and passes them along to buyers, sellers and anybody who is just interested.
The BCREA report from July includes the current figures, using the Consumer Price Ind...
Is real estate market gradually turning around?
Posted on Jul 24, 2025
Recently released statistics offer an encouraging yet modest look at the real estate market in British Columbia. Because of the time it takes to collect and assess the data, “recently” sometimes refers to the month of May.
According to the British Columbia Real Estate Association, sales were down by just 0.4 per cent in May compared to April but up...
GST relief — now The Elevator Home's even more attractive
Posted on Jul 14, 2025
The new federal policy that means first-time homeowners won’t have to pay GST when buying their new homes makes The Elevator Home an ideal candidate.
Because it is a new, never-been-lived-in home, because its price is less than $1.5 million, the final home at The Ross Residences, and because the Federal Government’s policy is in effect, the price of...
Next interest-rate announcements coming this month
Posted on Jul 13, 2025
Both the Bank of Canada and, in the United States, the Federal Reserve have interest-rate announcements scheduled for July 30. The widespread speculation is that interest rates in both countries will…well, who really knows?
Given that the latest rates for tariffs are supposed to go into effect 48 hours later, it’s logical that the movement (or non-m...
Quick analysis of Bank of Canada’s latest interest rate no-change
Posted on Jun 09, 2025
The Bank of Canada doesn’t take a summer vacation. The fifth of eight interest-rate announcements this year will be made in the middle of summer — July 30 is the listed date. In such volatile economic times, it’s likely to attract more attention than mid-summer news usually does.
The fourth announcement (June 4) produced the widely-anticipated resul...